The parents
The Super Bowl is part sporting spectacle, part Hollywood blockbuster, but for one player in particular that's a particularly fitting description... Carolina's Michael Oher had his life brought to the big screen in the Oscar nominated "The Blind Side". It tells his story of being taken in by a family who raised him as their own and set him on the path to sporting success
Sandra Bullock won a best actress Oscar for her portrayal of Oher's adopted mother, Leigh Anne Tuohy. However there's nothing like hearing the real life story, and that's what Caroline Barker did back in 2013 when she went to meet Leigh Anne, her husband Sean ahead of their son's first appearance at the Super Bowl.
(Picture: Leigh Anne, her husband Sean preparing for the Superbowl when Michael played for the Baltimore Ravens, credit: Joel Hammer/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ own)
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